Sector
Aerospace, space and satellite
Ground stations, terminals and survey campaigns arrive as a small number of people and a large amount of equipment, on a window that was fixed months ago.
The operational problem is not the technology. It is that the equipment is high value, often sensitive to handling and to customs classification, and the team that installs it is on the ground for weeks rather than years — so nothing can be learned the slow way.
We run the layer underneath: the import file and the clearance, the warehousing and onward movement, the site and its power and connectivity, the people who need visas, transport and somewhere to work, and the record that says what arrived, when, and in what condition.
Operational challenges in Iraq
- High-value equipment whose customs classification decides whether it moves or sits
- Antennas, terminals and instruments that will not tolerate ordinary handling
- Install windows measured in weeks, with a technical team flying in and out
- Sites that need power, connectivity and physical protection before anything is unpacked
- Spares and replacement parts needed at short notice from outside Iraq
- A record of custody and condition that an insurer and a programme office will both read
Related services
Freight, Logistics and Warehousing
Sea, air and road freight into Iraq, with the documentation checked before the container sails — which is the part that decides whether it clears.…
Procurement Services
Send the requirement. Receive the file. Every purchase runs the same route, whether it is a generator for a site in Basra or twelve desks for a Baghda…
Project and Site Support
Mobilisation is a schedule problem. Everything has to arrive in the right order, and one late item makes the rest of the plan academic.…
Airport Services
The airport is where an Iraq visit is won or lost. Somebody is either waiting with your name on a card, or you are alone in an arrivals hall.…
Security Coordination
Security in Iraq is a licensed activity, and it should be. We contract and supervise the licensed company that does the work, so it is the right one —…
A representative scenario
An international contractor mobilises to Basra
A contractor must mobilise a project team and site operation within a short period.
What Salt does
- Project Base
- Temporary site office
- Staff accommodation
- Vehicles and drivers
- Project procurement
- Equipment rental
What the client receives
One mobilisation plan and one accountable operational coordinator.
Representative scenario. It describes how the service works and is not an account of a completed client matter.
Who usually asks us
- Programme and deployment managers
- Ground segment and field engineering leads
- Logistics and trade compliance managers
- Country and regional managers
- Procurement leads carrying the import obligation
Where this touches legal work. Import licensing, export-control and dual-use questions, telecommunications and spectrum authorisation, contracting and any dispute sit with Salt & Associates, engaged separately.
Common questions
Can you clear and move equipment that needs careful handling?
Yes, as a managed file rather than a hand-off: classification and paperwork prepared before the shipment moves, a handler selected and briefed, condition recorded at each transfer, and one person answering for the whole chain.
Do you install or commission equipment?
No. Your engineers do that. We put them in front of a site that is ready, powered, connected and protected, with the equipment there and accounted for.
A window, a site and a shipment?
Tell us the dates, the location and what has to arrive first.
One Desk in Baghdad. Turnkey back-office infrastructure.
Salt Corporate Services runs all ten areas below — 33 services and 15 configured products, under one account lead, one request channel and one monthly report. Most clients start with one area and add the rest as the operation grows.